Current Chemical Biology

ISSN: 1872-3136 - Volume 4, 3 Issues, 2010

Editor-in-Chief:

Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS
International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences
University of Karachi
Karachi-75270
Pakistan

Editorial Advisory Board:

H.Y. Aboul-Enein (National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt)
B.B. Aggarwal (University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA)
A. Alimonti (National Health Institute, Rome, Italy)
J. Aqvist (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
A. Armstrong (Imperial College London, London, UK)
Y. Asakawa (Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan)
D. Astruc (Université Bordeaux I, Talence, France)
D.S. Auld (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
J. Ausio (University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada)
S.P. Bajaj (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
A. Ballabio (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Napoli, Italy)
G. Balme (Université Claude Bernard, Villeurbanne, France)
D.J. Benos (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA)
B. Berkhout (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
I. Bertini (University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy)
A. Bianco (Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
R.E. Blankenship (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA)
M.L. Bolognesi (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
M.A. Bothwell (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
S. Bottomley (Monash University, Clayton Vic, Malaysia)
S. Braese (Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany)
S. Brakmann (University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany)
L. Brasili (University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Nodena, Italy)
M. Braun (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany)
G. Brudvig (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
X.-H. Bu (Nankai University, Tianjin, China)
H. Budzikiewicz (Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany)
T.P. Burris (The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, USA)
S. Caddick (University College London, London, UK)
G. Calo' (University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy)
M. Canton (University of Padova, Padova, Italy)
M.-F. Carlier (CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
G. Caron (University of Torino (I), Torino, Italy)
V.B. Carruthers (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
M. Cascio (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Y.-T. Chang (New York University, New York, NY, USA)
X. Chen (University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
D.Y. Chi (Inha University, Inchon, Korea)
Y.E. Chin (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
G.M. Clore (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
J.M. Concellón (Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain)
P.G. Cozzi (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
C. Cremo (The University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA)
M.D. Cummings (Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C., Exton, PA, USA)
J. Cuppoletti (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
D.M. Cyr (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
S. Dai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
T.M. Dawson (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA)
M.J. de Groot (Pfizer Global Res. and Develop., Sandwich Laboratories, Kent, UK)
A. de Meijere (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Deutschland)
N.J. de Mol (Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
E. Dermitzakis (University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland)
U.R. Desai (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA)
G.R. Desiraju (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India)
G. Dormán (Albany Molecular Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary)
S. Ducki (University of Salford, Salford, UK)
P.J. Dyson (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)
T. Elliott (University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton, UK)
R.R. Ernst (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
I.J.S. Fairlamb (University of York, York, UK)
V.E. Fedorov (Siberian Branch of Russian Acad. of Sci., Novosibirsk, Russia)
L. Feng (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
S. Freeman (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
A. Ganesan (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
J. Gao (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
V.A. Gault (University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland)
E. Gazit (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
B. Giese (University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
E. Giralt (Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
R.A. Glennon (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA)
A. Gomtsyan (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA)
B. Gong (State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA)
C. Gowda (Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA)
A.M. Gronenborn (Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med., Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
R.I. Gumport (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA)
R. Gust (Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
D. Hall (University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)
J. Han (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA)
Y. Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
B. Hauer (BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, Germany)
M. Hengartner (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
S.A. Henry (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
W. Hinrichs (University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany)
M. Hippler (University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany)
J. Hiscott (Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada)
F. Hof (University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada)
H. Höpfl (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico)
R. Horuk (Berlex Biosciences, Richmond, CA, USA)
N.V. Hud (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA)
A. Imberty (CERMAV-CNRS, Grenoble Cedex, France)
I. Iavicoli (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy)
R.J. Isfort (Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Mason, OH, USA)
K.A. Jacobson (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
K.-T. Jeang (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
A.K.-Y. Jen (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
J.M. Jez (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA)
F. Jian (Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China)
J.X. Jiang (Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA)
L. Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
P. Joseph-Nathan (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico)
N. Karamanos (University of Patras, Patras, Greece)
Y. Kayaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
P.A. Keller (University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia)
Z. Kelman (University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, MD, USA)
B.K. Keppler (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
H. Kessler (Inst. fuer Org. Chem. und Biochem., Garching, Germany)
Y. Kiso (Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan)
Y. Kita (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
D. Klenerman (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK)
B. Koenig (University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)
K. Koide (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
A.P. Kozikowski (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)
W. Kunz (University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)
S. LaPlante (Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd., Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
S.A. Laufer (Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
P.A. Lay (The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
H.C. Lee (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
P. le Floch (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France)
A. Levitzki (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
S.V. Ley (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
J. Li (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA)
Y. Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
K.-J. Lin (National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
Y. Lin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA)
B.H. Lipshutz (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
A. Llebaria (Research Unit on BioActive Molecules, Barcelona, Spain)
R. Lomoth (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
Y. Lu (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA)
B. Ma (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT, USA)
D. Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
H.-M. Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
J. Ma (UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA)
S. Ma (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)
L.R. MacGillivray (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA)
J.J. Manfredi (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA)
A. Marabotti (Italian National Research Council, Avellino, Italy)
T. Martinek (University of Szeged, Szeged Eotvos, Hungary)
B. Mayer (Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Graz, Austria)
J.P. Mayer (Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN, USA)
Y. Mo (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA)
S. Moro (University of Padova, Padova, Italy)
J.D. Morrow (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
A. Müller (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany)
O. Müller (Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany)
P.V. Murphy (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
G.H. Nancollas (The State University of New York, Amherst, NY, USA)
K. Nagasawa (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
N. Neamati (Universiy of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
S.J. Ono (Emory University , London, UK)
T. Owa (Eisai Co., Ltd., Ibaraki, Japan)
S.-E. Park (Inha University, Incheon, Korea)
K.S. Patrick (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA)
S. Pennington (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
V. Pittalà (Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy)
M.R. Player (Johnson & Johnson Pharm. Res. & Develop., L.L.C, Exton, PA, USA)
J. Qin (Lerner Research Institute and College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA)
M. Quan (Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Pennington, NJ, USA)
S.W. Ragsdale (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA)
K. Ray (NIH, Rockville, MD, USA)
C.G. Riordan (University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA)
D.D. Roberts (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
P.J. Robinson (Children’s Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia)
A. Rogach (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany)
E.B. Romero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
M. Santoro (University "Federico II" of Naples, Napoli, Italy)
A.P.H.J. Schenning (Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
H. Scheraga (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
G. Schneider (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland)
W. Schrader (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany)
H. Schwalbe (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)
T. Shimizu (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
I. Shin (Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea)
J. Shlomai (The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel)
M. Sieber-Blum (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA)
T.J. Simpson (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)
R. Simpson (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Parkville, Australia)
P. Sinay (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
K. Soai (Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan)
M. Sollogoub (Institut de chimie moléculaire, Paris Cedex, France)
A.J. Souers (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA)
E.E. Strehler (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA)
S.S. Stojilkovic (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
B.M. Stoltz (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA)
J. Storey (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK)
W.K. Surewicz (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA)
C. Szantay (Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary)
W. Tam (University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada)
F. Tanaka (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA)
N. Tao (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA)
R.E. Taylor (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA)
D.B. Teplow (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
E.A. Theodorakis (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
J.A. Thomas (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
F. Tillequin (University of Paris, Paris, France)
P.J. Tonge (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
B.M. Trost (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)
V.V. Tsukruk (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA)
S. Vardhineedi (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
N.P.E. Vermeulen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
R. Verpoorte (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
G. Vistoli (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
N. Vitale (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg Cedex, France)
W. Voelter (Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
R.C. Wade (EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany)
L.-J. Wan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
C.-C. Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
H.-Y. Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, P.R.China)
J. Wang (Encysive Pharmaceuticals Inc., Houston, TX, USA)
M.-X. Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
P.G. Wang (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA)
X.-F. Wang (Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA)
S.M. Weinreb (Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
T. Wieder (University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
A.V. Wijnen (University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA)
R.M. Williams (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA)
C.C. Wilson (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
J. Wilusz (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA)
T. Wirth (Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)
V. Wittmann (Universitaet Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany)
W.-D. Woggon (University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
W.-T. Wong (The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong)
W.J. Wu (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD,USA)
Z.-J. Yao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
K. Yamamoto (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
D.S.-C. Yang (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
T. Yokomatsu (Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Tokyo, Japan)
B. Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
J. Yu (Jilin University, Changchun, China)
M. Yus (Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain)
G. Zanoni (University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
J. Zemlicka (Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA)
H.C. Zeng (National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore)
Y. Zhou (Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA)
T. Ziegler (University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
Y. Zick (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)